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Por que as pessoas dizem "Jesus H. Cristo" e de

onde veio o "H"?
Por Quora. com
26 de junho de 2019

Monograma IHC: Wikimedia Commons // Domínio Público. Background: iStock/vectortatu / IHC monograma:
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Spencer Alexander McDaniel :

Bem, primeiro, vamos falar sobre de onde vem o nome "Jesus Cristo". O nome Jesus é
uma forma anglicizada do nome latino Iesus , que por sua vez é uma forma latinizada do
antigo nome grego Ἰησοῦς ( Iēsoũs ), que é, por sua vez, uma forma helenizada do nome
original de Jesus no antigo aramaico palestino, que foi ‫ ( ֵיׁשּוַע‬yēšūă' ), uma forma
abreviada do nome hebraico anterior ‫ ( ְיהֹוֻׁשַע‬y'hoshuaʿ ), que significa "Yahweh é
Salvação".

y'hoshua' é o nome hebraico original do herói Josué, a figura central do Livro de Josué
no Antigo Testamento. Consequentemente, yēšūă' era um dos nomes masculinos mais
comuns na Judéia e na Galiléia durante a primeira parte do primeiro século dC, quando
Jesus estava vivo. Existem até várias outras pessoas com o mesmo nome mencionado no
Novo Testamento, incluindo Jesus Barrabás no Evangelho de Marcos e Jesus Justo, um
apóstolo mencionado no Livro de Atos e nas Epístolas Paulinas.

Embora as pessoas hoje tratem a palavra Cristo como se fosse o sobrenome de Jesus, na
verdade não é um nome, mas sim um epíteto (ou seja, um título descritivo). A palavra
inglesa Christ é uma forma anglicizada da palavra latina Christus , que é, por sua vez,
uma forma latinizada da palavra grega antiga Χριστός ( Christós ), que significa
"ungido". A palavra Χριστός é usada no Novo Testamento como uma tradução grega do
título hebraico ‫ ( ָמִׁשיַח‬māšîaḥ ), que tem aproximadamente o mesmo significado.
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Na antiguidade, o título de māšîaḥ não era exclusivamente específico para uma pessoa
em particular; em vez disso, era um título genérico que poderia ser aplicado a qualquer
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um que fosse considerado como cumprindo o papel de ungido de Deus. Por exemplo,
em Isaías 45:1, o título é aplicado a Ciro, o Grande, o xá do Império Aquemênida, que
libertou os judeus do cativeiro na Babilônia depois que ele capturou a cidade em 539
AEC e permitiu que eles voltassem. casa para reconstruir seu Templo em Jerusalém.

Agora que temos isso coberto, podemos continuar a explicar de onde a frase "Jesus H.
Cristo" provavelmente vem. A maioria dos cristãos está familiarizada com o monograma
Chi Rho. Se você não conhece, aqui está:

Mich Taylor, Wikimedia Commons // CC BY-SA 3.0

É composto pelas formas maiúsculas das letras gregas chi ⟨Χ⟩ e rho ⟨Ρ⟩, as duas
primeiras letras da palavra grega Χριστός, sobrepostas umas às outras. É uma espécie de
abreviatura inteligente que foi usada pelos primeiros cristãos para significar "Jesus" sem
ter que escrever seu nome completo.

Há, no entanto, outro monograma usado para representar Jesus com o qual muitas
pessoas estão menos familiarizadas: o monograma IHϹ. Aqui está uma forma dele:

Wikimedia Commons // Domínio Público

Enquanto o monograma Chi Rho é composto pelas formas maiúsculas das duas
primeiras letras da palavra grega Χριστός, o monograma IHϹ é composto pelas três
primeiras letras de Ἰησοῦς, que, se você se lembra, é a grafia grega do nome Jesus .

A primeira letra é a letra grega iota ⟨I ι⟩, que se parece com a letra latina ⟨I⟩ e faz o som
[i] como na palavra mach i ne, ou às vezes o som consonantal [ j] como na palavra y
amarelo. A segunda letra é a letra grega eta, que faz o som E longo, mas que se parece
com a letra latina H ⟨H η⟩. A terceira e última letra é o semilunar sigma ⟨Ϲ ϲ⟩, uma
forma da letra grega sigma que se pareceHISTÓRIA
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latina ⟨C⟩ e faz o
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som [s] como na palavra s oft.

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Estas são as três primeiras letras do nome Ἰησοῦς, a grafia grega do nome Jesus usada
no texto grego original do Novo Testamento. Em algum momento, no entanto,
presumivelmente no início do século 19, americanos ignorantes que estavam
acostumados ao alfabeto latino e que nada sabiam do alfabeto grego confundiram as
letras do monograma IHϹ com as letras latinas J, H e C. concluiu que o J deve significar
"Jesus" e o C deve significar "Cristo", mas ninguém conseguiu descobrir o que o H
significava. Aparentemente, algumas pessoas apenas concluíram: "Ei, acho que H deve
ser a inicial do meio!"

Eventualmente, a frase "Jesus H. Christ" tornou-se uma espécie de piada e começou a

ser usada como um palavrão suave. Em sua autobiografia, o autor americano Mark
Twain (também conhecido como Samuel Langhorne Clemens; viveu de 1835 a 1910)
observou que a frase já era de uso comum quando ele ainda era jovem. Twain conta uma
anedota bem-humorada de como, por volta de 1847, quando era aprendiz de impressor, o
pregador evangélico Alexander Campbell, líder do "Movimento de Restauração",
ordenou que o impressor a quem o jovem Samuel Clemens fosse aprendiz imprimisse
alguns panfletos para um de seus sermões.

Infelizmente, a impressora acidentalmente deixou cair algumas palavras e, para evitar

ter que redefinir três páginas inteiras de texto, abriu espaço para preencher as palavras
que faltavam abreviando o nome "Jesus Cristo" para simplesmente "JC" em um ponto
do texto. O piedoso reverendo Campbell, no entanto, insistiu que o impressor não
deveria "diminuir" o nome do Senhor; ele insistiu que precisava incluir o nome
completo, mesmo que isso significasse redefinir três páginas inteiras de texto já
definido. O impressor redefiniu o texto, mas, como estava incomodado com o
reverendo, em vez de mudar o texto do panfleto para dizer simplesmente "Jesus Cristo",
ele mudou para "Jesus H. Cristo".

É importante notar que a história de Mark Twain não é a origem da frase, mas é uma das
primeiras evidências do uso da frase.

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Por que as câmeras são permitidas em alguns

tribunais e não em outros?
Por Jake Rossen
3 de maio de 2022

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Nem todos os tribunais são compatíveis com câmeras. /bjones27/iStock via Getty Images

Poucos casos criminais chamaram a atenção do público como o desaparecimento do

bebê Lindbergh. Em março de 1932, Charles Lindbergh Jr., o filho recém-nascido do
famoso aviador Charles Lindbergh , desapareceu de sua casa em Hopewell, Nova Jersey,
e posteriormente foi detido por resgate. O sequestro chamou a atenção e terminou
tragicamente quando o corpo da criança foi encontrado em maio daquele mesmo ano.

When Bruno Hauptmann was arrested in 1934 and subsequently tried for the kidnapping
and murder of the baby in 1935, the ensuing media attention was enormous. More than
700 journalists attended the trial and proved to be disruptive, blinding people with
flashes. It was the first time the American judicial system had to grapple with whether
the press had a right to film or photograph court proceedings, a controversy that
persists with high-profile cases to this day.

Why, for example, was America able to watch the O.J. Simpson trial, but not that of
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes? It often has to do with whether a case is being
tried under federal or state law.

Following the Hauptmann debacle—his legal counsel even tried to get his conviction
overturned, owing to the frenzy—the American Bar Association (ABA) instituted a ban
on cameras (still or motion) inside a courtroom in 1937.

But that prohibition didn't necessarily stand up to state or federal law. In the 1960s,
judges in Texas had the discretion to allow cameras or not. When they opted in, there
were controversies: At least two convictions were overturned, with defendants arguing
that media coverage had denied them a fair trial, giving ammunition to the anti-camera
contingent.

The Supreme Court weighed in during the 1980s when it declared courts in Florida
could permit broadcast coverage if they so chose, even if the defendant objected. (Some
states require both parties agree to coverage; as a rule, federal courts rarely allow
cameras.) In 1982, the ABA also repealed its 1937 mandate.

It is, of course, in the interests of the news media to have coverage permitted, and news
organizations often ask courts to allow cameras, citing First Amendment rights to
public information or a Sixth Amendment right to a public trial. But "public" doesn't
necessarily mean "televised." In 2004, Judge Rodney Melville fielded such requests for a
pre-trial hearing in the Michael Jackson trial, in which Jackson was accused of child
molestation. Melville denied the press a hearing on the matter, and prohibited cameras
inside the courtroom. (Jackson was found not guilty.) In 2011, however, Judge Michael
Pastor permitted cameras in the trial of Dr. Conrad Murray, who had attended to
Jackson prior to the singer's death and was charged with involuntary manslaughter.
(Murray was found guilty.) Pastor asked news media outlets to submit their proposals
on camera placement so they were as unobtrusive as possible.

Because there is no constitutional ban on cameras, states are largely free to permit or
refuse such coverage. Reasons for prohibiting cameras could include being persuaded by
arguments that witnesses may be more nervous or that attorneys or witnesses might
“play” to a television audience. Pro-camera arguments state that public viewing leads to
transparency in the justice system. In the end, it’s often up to judges whether their
proceedings become must-see TV or not.
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Why Do We Have to Wear Bowling Shoes?

By Jake Rossen
Apr 29, 2022

Bowling shoes might be gross, but they're also necessary. / lisegagne/iStock via Getty Images

Bowling may not be America’s national pastime, but it remains a great way to be social,
engage in a competitive activity, and, if you’re in a league, sport some truly remarkable
shirts.

But the most puzzling sartorial choice in the game is the shoes. Bowling alleys require
customers to swap out their standard footwear for a pair of stiff, uncomfortable, and
possibly odorous kicks that increase social awkwardness by wide margins. Why do lanes
make us do this? More importantly, why can’t we rock a pair of fresh New Balances
instead?

Many folks have probably heard that bowling shoes help you maintain traction on slick
lanes, but they actually do the opposite. Good sets have slick soles so bowlers can glide
on the surface of the lane, allowing for a wider range of body motion, which is one of the
big reasons why it's better to wear them as opposed to regular shoes.

Picture wearing sneakers with treads: When you swing the ball and are fixed in place,
you’re putting more stress on your ankles, knees, wrist, and other joints. You want to
slide, not stop, which you can do in bowling shoes. But this isn't as slippery of a
situation as it sounds. The soles of bowling shoes aren't entirely made out of leather:
The heel is rubber, which acts as a kind of brake for your foot. So you’ll slide, but not
like you were on ice skates. (Some have the leather sole on one side and rubber on the
other.)

While safety is the primary reason lanes require a switch into bowling shoes, they also
want to protect their floor surfaces. If everyone wore street shoes, the polished floors
would get scuffed and dirtied easily. Imagine rolling a bowling ball and having it careen
off course because of dirt, or even getting caught with a piece of chewing gum
underfoot. Dedicated bowling shoes that are only worn inside may also protect floors
from getting damp or wet if it’s raining or snowing. (You could still encounter a sticky
concession
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Should you bring your own bowling shoes? They may be worth the investment if you
bowl regularly. But for purely sanitary reasons, it’s probably not necessary. While
donning a shared pair of shoes can in theory transmit bacteria, warts, and fungus
leading to athlete’s foot, it's not likely. The shoes are supposed to be cleaned after each
use with disinfectant and/or antifungal spray, but your best protection is making sure
you wear socks and don’t have any open sores or blisters.

[h/t Sparetimes]

These 'Young Frankenstein' Bloopers Are

Abnormally Funny
By Michele Debczak
Apr 23, 2022

Gene Wilder, Teri Garr, and Marty Feldman in "Young Frankenstein". / United Archives/Getty Images

Mel Brooks's Young Frankenstein (1974) is stuffed with hilariously deadpan line
deliveries, but the cast wasn't always on-script behind the scenes. As demonstrated by
the blooper reel below, the actors struggled to get their lines out during the movie's
more absurd moments.

Though it's based on the Frankenstein movies from the 1930s, the classic horror-comedy
features more laughs than frights. The script and the performances were funny enough
to keep the cast in stitches between takes. According to Cloris Leachman, Gene Wilder
was especially notorious for breaking character on set.

“He killed every take [with his laughter] and nothing was done about it!” the Young
Frankenstein actress told the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2014. The
crew had to reshoot takes up to 15 times to get through Wilder's laughing fits.

The rest of the cast was more composed when the cameras were rolling, but some bits
were too funny to resist. The scene where Marty Feldman bites Madeline Kahn's mink
scarf was particularly hard to film without the performers cracking up.
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The bloopers weren't the only footage cut from the final film. The original movie packed
in even more jokes, but director Mel Brooks removed a significant portion of them

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following mixed reactions from test audiences. After watching the outtakes below, read
more facts about Young Frankenstein here.

Young Frankenstein (1974) Bloopers & Outtakes

28 Fascinating Facts About Time

By Kerry Wolfe
May 2, 2022

Every person on Earth is living in the past. / akinbostanci // iStock via Getty Images Plus

Did you know that a day on Earth used to be around six hours shorter than it is today?
Or that Julius Caesar once implemented a 445-day-long year? Learn those fascinating
facts about time and more in this list, adapted from an episode of The List Show on
YouTube. 

28 Fascinating Facts About Time

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1. Every person on Earth is living in the past.

This may sound like the plot to some sci-fi, time-travel thriller, but it’s actually a fact of
human biology and the trickiness of time. Our brains don’t perceive events until about
80 milliseconds until after they’ve happened. This fine line between the present and the
past is part of the reason why some physicists argue that there’s no such thing as “now”
and that the present moment is no more than an illusion. 

2. Throughout history, different cultures around the world have experienced

time in different ways.

In the Western world, we tend to think of time as linear and flowing from left to right.
But this isn’t the case for everyone. Language affects how people conceptualize time,
particularly the spatial metaphors they use to describe and map it. 

Those who read languages that flow from right to left, such as Arabic and Hebrew,
generally view time as flowing in the same direction. The Aymara, who live in the Andes
Mountains in South America, consider the future to be behind them, while the past is
ahead. In their view, because the future is unknown, it’s behind you, where you can’t see
it. Some Indigenous Australian cultures, which rely heavily on direction terms like
north, south, east, and west in their languages, visualize the passage of time as moving
from east to west. If they’re facing north, for example, the past would be to their right,
or east, whereas the future would be to their left, which would be west.

3. Individual people can experience time differently, too.

You’ve probably noticed how time seems to speed up when you’re racing against a
deadline or having fun, and how it tends to drag when you’re bored. This is because
when you’re focused on something, like a big work project or a party, your brain pays
less attention to how time passes. But when you’re bored, or your brain is less
stimulated, you become more aware of the passing of time, making it feel slower. One
study proposed that dopamine—the neurotransmitter and hormone that helps us feel
happy—may be an additional culprit. It showed that increased dopamine production,
which happens when you’re enjoying something, may slow down your body’s internal
clock, making time feel like it’s flying by.

4. Science has a number of different ways of defining time.

To cover just a couple: There’s astronomical time, which is measured in relation to how
long it takes Earth to rotate on its axis. In astronomical time, a second is 1/60th of a
minute. And then there’s atomic time, which dictates the numbers that you’ll see on a
clock. According to atomic time, one second equals 9,192,631,770 oscillations of a
cesium-133 atom. Measuring the vibration of an atom—which, in simple terms, is the
gist of what oscillation is—is the most accurate way to track time.

5. We can thank Albert Einstein for a lot of our current understanding of the
physics of time.

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Albert Einstein / Hulton Archive/GettyImages

Rather than viewing time as a set order, he proved that it’s actually relative. For
example, according to Einstein’s theory of special relativity, there’s an inverse
relationship between your speed and the speed of time. The faster you move, the slower
time moves.

This is why someone blasting through space will age slower than the people still hanging
out on Earth: Astronaut Scott Kelly was born several minutes after his twin brother,
Mark, but after Scott spent 340 days living on the International Space Station, he
returned to Earth around an extra 5 milliseconds younger than his “big” brother. Had
Scott been traveling at a speed close to the speed of light, that age difference would have
become much more pronounced.

6. Einstein’s theory also states that gravity can warp time.

If you’ve seen the 2014 movie Interstellar, this concept may seem familiar. The closer
you are to a massive body—which, in the case of Interstellar, is a giant black hole—the
slower time would pass for you. 

7. Gravity’s effect on time isn’t limited to intergalactic travel.

Here on Earth, gravity can vary for a number of reasons, including your altitude, since
you’re changing your distance from the center of the Earth. That means if you put a
bunch of synchronized atomic clocks at various altitudes, eventually those clocks would
fall out of sync. A clock at the top of Mount Everest and one at sea level would, over the
entire 4.5 billion year history of the planet, have diverged by about a day and a half.

8. Gravity is also the reason why our days are getting longer.

Over a billion years ago, a day on Earth lasted around 18 hours. Our days are longer now
because the moon’s gravity is causing Earth’s spin to slow down. In Earth’s earlier days,
the moon wasn’t as far away, which caused Earth to spin much faster than it currently
does. 

Longer days also mean shorter years—kind of. The time it takes the Earth to orbit the
sun hasn’t changed, but the amount of days within a year has. Back when the dinosaurs
ruled 70 million years ago, days were only around 23.5 hours long, and a year was made
up of 372 of those slightly shorter days. 

9. There are two ways to think of the length of a day on Earth.

Though you probably learned that one day on Earth is 24 hours, it actually takes the
planet 23 hours, 56 minutes, and 4.0916 seconds to rotate on its axis. This is the
difference between a solar day and a sidereal day—a solar day is 24 hours, whereas a
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In other words, a sidereal day is the time it takes for a distant star or constellation to
appear on the same meridian.

10. Because astronomical time and atomic time don’t always line up, every so
often, we get a leap second.

Earth’s spin speed can be a bit unpredictable. Atmospheric winds, Northern

Hemisphere winters with heavy snow, and other big weather systems can affect how fast
the planet rotates. In order to keep the difference between astronomical time and
atomic time to less than .9 seconds, the International Earth Rotation and Reference
Systems Service will occasionally announce the need for a leap second. 

Most people won’t notice a leap second, but they can be a huge pain for tech companies.
Because leap seconds are added irregularly, developers have no way of working them
into their codes, which has caused websites like LinkedIn and Reddit to crash in the
past. A bug caused by 2012’s leap second created so much chaos on Qantas’s servers,
more than 400 flights wound up being delayed.

11. The length of a year on Earth can also get a bit complicated.

The original Roman calendar was a bit of a mess, so much so that in 46 BCE Julius
Caesar mandated a 445-day-long year to help bring the calendar back in sync with the
seasons.

12. At the same time, Caesar asked the astronomer Sosigenes to help reform
the calendar.

Marvin Samuel Tolentino Pineda // iStock via Getty Images Plus

Most years were set at 365 days, but to make up for the fact that the earth's revolution
around the sun doesn't take exactly 365 days, leap years were implemented. Every four
years the month of February was given an extra day to make up for what is a sort of
rounding error in the calendar.

13. But Sosigenes made a bit of a miscalculation, so the calendar continued

to be a little off.

He thought a year lasted 365.25 days. It’s actually around 365 days, five hours, 48
minutes, and 45 seconds, equivalent to about 365.242 days. This tiny error had some
pretty big consequences: By 1577, the Julian calendar was off by 10 days, meaning key
Christian holidays were being celebrated on incorrect dates. 
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Pope Gregory XIII took issue with this and established a commission to get the calendar
back on track. In 1582, the Gregorian calendar was created. Rather than having an extra
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day every four years without exception, years that are divisible by 100—like 1700 or
1900—skip leap year. Unless the year is also divisible by 400, like the year 2000, in
which case the Leap Year is back on!  Even this system isn’t perfect, though: It has an
error of one day in 3236 years.

14. We can thank the railroad industry for standardizing our time zones.

Until the 19th century, towns and villages synchronized their clocks to the local solar
noon. This created thousands of local times that all varied and made scheduling
transportation a major headache. Train schedules in different cities had to list dozens of
arrival and departure times for each train to account for all the mini time zones. On
November 18, 1883, railroad companies in the United States and Canada began using a
system very similar to the standardized time zones we still use today. In the UK, the
railroad companies began using a standard London-based time in 1840.

15. After an engineer named Sandford Fleming missed a train in 1876, he set
out to change the way time worked.

Fleming originally proposed a concept he called “Cosmic Time,” in which the world
would run off an imaginary clock located at the planet’s center, essentially a line from
the center of the planet to the sun. He then suggested splitting the world into 24 time
zones labeled with a letter of the alphabet, with each zone spanning 15 degrees of
longitude. His original plan to create a standard “Cosmic Time” was rejected, but it did
lay the groundwork for a similar standardization, so-called Universal Time. And nations
present at the 1884 International Meridian Conference laid the groundwork for dividing
the world into 24 time zones, with the Prime Meridian, also known as Longitude 0°,
running through Greenwich, England. 

16. Even with the advent of standardized time, people still struggled to keep
their clocks in sync.

One London family used this to their advantage, and made a living by selling people the
time. An astronomer named John Belville would set his pocket watch to the time at the
Royal Observatory Greenwich. He would then travel around the city and visit his
network of subscribers, who paid to set their own clocks by Belville’s pocket watch.
After Belville died in 1856, his wife, and then later their daughter Ruth, carried on the
tradition. Ruth continued to sell the time until World War II. By then she was in her
eighties, and a couple of factors led to her timely retirement: Improved technology had
made her role less important, and the war was making treks around London too
dangerous.

17. Time zones can still be a bit complicated.

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Big countries like Canada and the United States have multiple time zones, whereas
China, another large country, only has one. China adopted the Beijing Standard Time to
foster unity, but the effect can feel a bit uncanny—two cities in the country can be at
roughly the same latitude, but experience sunrise hours apart, according to their clocks.
In some parts of China, for example, the sun doesn’t rise until nearly 10 a.m. 

18. Though a lot of people believe daylight saving time was adopted to keep
farmers happy, that’s a myth.

The first person to seriously advocate for daylight saving time was an entomologist who
wanted more sunlit hours to look for insects after work in the summer. He proposed his
idea to a scientific society in New Zealand in 1895. 

19. Daylight saving time wasn’t officially implemented until 1916.

Germany became the first country to adopt it in an effort to conserve coal during World
War I. The United States didn’t follow suit until 1918.

20. Daylight saving time ended on a national level after the war, but
individual states and municipalities kept it going until World War II.

At the end of World War I, the entire nation went on what was effectively a year-round
daylight saving time. After World War II, the entire nation was again picking and
choosing daylight saving time. It’s been reported that in Iowa, back in 1964, there were
23 different combinations of dates that communities turned on and off daylight saving
time. In 1966, the government officially mandated a standardized daylight saving time
for the entire United States, though individual states can opt out.

Until 2007, daylight saving time ended in October. It’s been reported that the candy
industry lobbied to wait until after Halloween to change the clocks back an hour. 

21. Daylight saving time does more than make people lose an hour of sleep.

In fact, it can have some pretty concerning health effects. Studies have linked daylight
saving time with an uptick in heart attacks, car crashes, and mining injuries. The extra
hour of daylight is good for koalas, though: Researchers found that koala-car collisions
went down by up to 11 percent during daylight saving time.

22. People have been tracking time for thousands of years.

In 2013, archaeologists found what’s thought to be the world's oldest lunar calendar
while excavating a field in Scotland. The calendar, which is made of a series of 12 pits
that mimic the moon’s phases, dates back to around 8000 BCE. 

23. Sundials read differently depending on the hemisphere you’re in.

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In the Northern Hemisphere, the sun casts a shadow that moves from north, to east, to
south, to west. In the Southern Hemisphere, the shadow moves in the opposite
direction. Our concept of “clockwise” is based on the way sundials in the Northern
Hemisphere told time.

24. An innovative clock was built in China in 1090.

A man named Su Song created a water-powered clock tower that measured time and
tracked the movements of the planets and stars in the night sky. Su Song built a giant
water wheel within the clock tower. Buckets attached to the wheel would fill with water
and then tip once full, causing the wheel to rotate, demarcating time.

25. The Maya had multiple calendars to measure time.

The most familiar is the Long Count Calendar. These calendars measured around 5125
years, beginning around August 3114 BCE. The Long Count calendar’s cycle came to an
end around December 21, 2012, sparking a craze of Armageddon conspiracy theories.

26. You’ll find the most accurate clock at the National Institute of Standards
and Technology in Boulder, Colorado.

The clock keeps time by measuring the vibration of a single aluminum ion, and should
remain accurate for 33 billion years. The clock sitting on your bedside table isn't quite as
precise.

27. New clocks are set at 10:10 for a reason.

If you’ve bought a new clock or watch recently, you may have noticed that the default
setting was 10:10, give or take a few minutes. There are various theories behind this
particular choice of time, but really, it all comes down to aesthetics. Setting the time to
around 10:10 allows the hands of an analog clock to be displayed in a neat, symmetrical
way that doesn’t obscure any logos in the center of the clock’s face. Clocks were once
set to 8:20, and occasionally still are, but the hands’ downward angles can make it look
like the timepieces are frowning.

28. Traveling back in time is possible—theoretically, at least.

De acordo com a teoria de Einstein, você poderia viajar de volta no tempo movendo-se
mais rápido que a velocidade da luz, contanto que pudesse de alguma forma ter massa
infinita. Como isso provavelmente não funcionará, você poderia criar “ buracos de
minhoca ” entre dois pontos no espaço-tempo. (Isso também seria difícil, já que a
humanidade ainda não inventou a tecnologia para realmente construir um buraco de
minhoca.) Ou você pode tentar dobrar o espaço-tempo arrancando algumas “cordas
cósmicas”. Duas dessas cordas teóricas, que são finas correntes de energia pura que se
movem em direções opostas a uma velocidade muito próxima da velocidade da luz,
poderiam teoricamente deformar o espaço-tempo o suficiente para criar uma curva
fechada do tipo tempo – também conhecida como máquina do tempo. 

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